On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 01:11:30PM -0700, Vergara, Michael (TEM) wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > I want to connect to an Oracle database and test for the existence of > a table. My first thought was to SELECT COUNT(*) FROM TABLE, but > DBI catches the ORA-942 error and I don't know how to catch that. > It throws the error during the $dbh->execute step; how do I catch > an Oracle error returned from that step? > > Or...is there a better way? > > Thanks, > Mike >
Yes there is, and it is even portable (or so they say) across different vendors. Look for the table_info () method at http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.48/DBI.pm#Database_Handle_Methods Peter
